Feature Request: More customizable terms

[Shane H. W. Travis]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Christian Robottom Reis wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 04:20:25PM +0100, Andreas Höfler wrote:
> >    At our location such wishes had the effect that we renamed
> >    Product -> Team
> >    Component -> Component
> >    Version -> Project
> >    Milestone -> Iteration
> >    Severity -> Task Type
> >    Platform -> PM Type
> >    OS -> Dev Type
> >
>
> Feel free to submit patches; following the terms.Bugzilla example should
> prove quite trivial.

I'm surprised to hear you suggesting this, Christian, given your previously
elucidated comments on bug 218746 (Terms "Product" and "Component" should be
templatized).

In that case, Marc Schumann did *exactly* what you're suggesting; he did the
work, and made a patch to put Product and Component into terms. Result? You,
gerv, and Joel smacked him down, gave him an r- on his patch, ignored the
updated patch that addressed the (valid) concerns, and marked the whole
thing RESOLVED WONTFIX.

Given that the expressly held attitude (of Those Who Can Deny Patches,
anyway) on the templatization of any term other than 'bug' seems to be
'this far, and no further'... why would you suggest to anyone that they
submit a patch when it's (extremely) likely that they're going to run
into exactly the same response?

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